A viral video seeing Maharashtra state’s night skies getting lit up and leaving netizens asking if it was a meteorite shower or burning debris falling from the sky.
The video was posted by an India-based news agency on the social media application Twitter. It showed streaks of lights descending to the earth.
“In what appears to be a meteor shower was witnessed over the skies of Nagpur & several other parts of the state,” the caption read.
The video got all sorts of comments from netizens. Some believed that it was a meteorite or debris from a destroyed satellite.
According to NASA, meteoroids are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. Think of them as space rocks.
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“When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or ‘shooting stars’ are called meteors,” it stated. “When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it’s called a meteorite.”
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